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coloured It cannot be confused with any other garden species of 

 Sedum It appears to be closely related to S. Greggii, a species not 

 in cultivation so far as I am aware, though its name occurs m garden 

 lists ; the plant so named is usually S. moranense, a larger plant than 

 Greg'gii, and with white, not yeUow, flowers. 



Description-A small, glabrous, evergreen perennial S<m5 decumbent 



Z7o':tX con?/^ o??actvfS lon'g. Fw/j inch across, sessile, bome 



Fig. 142. — S. cupressoides Hemsley. 



singly or 2 or 3 together at the ends of the branches. Buds lanceolate, blunt. 

 S^pJs green, fleshy, lanceolate, acute. Petals bright yellow, lanceolate, acute, 

 wide-spreading, four times the sepals. Stamens nearly equall ng the petals. 

 ^de-spSdinl; yellow. Scales yellow, as broad as long. Carpels yellow, erect, 

 equalling the petals, styles long, slender. 



Flowers July (gentle heat) ; August (cold frame). Sometimes 

 survives the winter in the open in Dublin. 



Habitat.— Mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. 



Received from Washington and Edinburgh, and also from the 

 garden of the late Sir Frank Crisp at Henley-on-Thames. 



Hemsley's figure differs somewhat from my living plants m its 

 narrower leaves, shorter sepals and petals, and shorter and more 

 erect stamens- differences probably sufficiently explained by the 

 fact that his figures were drawn from dried specimens. 



